findings-submissions-branch.adoc

The findings-submissions branch

findings-submissions is an automated data-sink branch, not a feature branch. The Hypatia Finding Submitter pushes scan-finding JSON to it on a schedule (commits titled findings: <repo> @ <date>), accumulating the raw findings stream that feeds the fleet’s review queue.

Do not reconcile it

• Do not merge it into main. It carries tens of thousands of lines of findings JSON; merging would pollute main with transient data.

• Do not delete it. It is an active channel — the submitter pushes to it continuously and downstream tooling reads from it.

• Do not rebase/squash/branch-hygiene it. Its divergence from main is intentional and expected.

Treat it like a queue, not a contribution. It is deliberately long-lived and divergent from main.